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THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>LEVITICUS</span>
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CHAPTER 21
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The priests shall be holy—The high priest shall not marry a widow, nor a divorced person, nor an harlot—Seed of Aaron with physical blemishes shall not offer the bread of God upon the altar.
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And</span> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 44: 25.">dead</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/21/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE among the family of Aaron.">among</a> his people:
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But for his kin, that is near unto him, <i>that is,</i> for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
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And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
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<i>But</i> he shall not defile himself, <i>being</i> a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
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They shall not make <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 19: 27; Ezek. 44: 20.">baldness</a> upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/21/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Body, Sanctity of.">flesh</a>.
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They shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/6a" mark="a" type="C" title="D&C 38: 42; TG Holiness.">holy</a> unto their God, and not <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/21/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Profanity.">profane</a> the name of their God: for the offerings of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> made by <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/21/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 3: 11.">fire</a>, <i>and</i> the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
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They shall not take a wife <i>that is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Whoredom.">whore</a>, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he <i>is</i> holy unto his God.
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Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 20: 7.">sanctify</a> you, <i>am</i> holy.
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&#182; And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 38: 24.">burnt</a> with fire.
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And <i>he that is</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 29: 1 (1-46); Num. 35: 25.">high</a> priest among his brethren, upon whose head the <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/21/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Aaronic.">anointing</a> oil was poured, and <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/21/10c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB (literally) whose hand is filled; i.e. who is equipped, or authorized.">that</a> is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
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Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
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Neither shall he go out of the <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR temple.">sanctuary</a>, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/21/12b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR consecration.">crown</a> of the <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/21/12c" mark="c" type="C" title="Lev. 10: 7; TG Anointing.">anointing</a> oil of his God <i>is</i> upon him: I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
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A <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 44: 22.">widow</a>, or a divorced woman, or profane, <i>or</i> an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
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Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> do sanctify him.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto Moses, saying,
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Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever <i>he be</i> of thy seed in their generations that hath <i>any</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 23: 1.">blemish</a>, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
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For whatsoever man <i>he be</i> that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/18a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB too long; i.e. deformed.">superfluous</a>,
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Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
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Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
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No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
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He shall eat the bread of his God, <i>both</i> of the most holy, and of the holy.
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Only he shall not go in unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/21/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Veil.">vail</a>, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> do sanctify them.
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And Moses told <i>it</i> unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
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